Cairngorms National Park Partnership Plan 2022-27 - Other - Page 115
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Climate emergency – a situation in
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Ecosystem functionality – the capacity
which urgent action is required to reduce
of natural processes and components
or halt climate change and avoid potentially
to provide goods and services that satisfy
irreversible environmental damage
human needs, either directly or indirectly.
resulting from it.
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Green engineering – using natural
Compensation culls – fences that prevent
methods in the place of more traditional hard
access to areas of ground that deer rely on for
engineering, eg a green roof or a pond that
forage or shelter may increase the risk of
provides sustainable urban drainage.
suffering or winter mortality through
starvation and exposure. In order to reduce
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Heritage Horizons: Cairngorms 2030 –
this risk, NatureScot recommends that deer
a project, led by the Park Authority and involving
‘dependent’ on the fenced-off area should be
over 45 partners, to tackle the climate emergency,
culled. Cull-setting is calculated using information
protect and enhance biodiversity, and deliver
on numbers and movement of deer that rely
meaningful improvements to people’s health and
on the area.
wellbeing across the Cairngorms National Park.
COP15 – the UN Biodiversity Conference of
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In-bye land – that part of a farm which is
the Parties, which will take place in Montreal,
used mainly for arable and grassland
Canada from 5 to 17 December 2022.
production and which is not hill and
Despite ongoing efforts, biodiversity is
rough grazing.
deteriorating worldwide and this decline
is projected to worsen unless urgent action is
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Just transition – the concept that justice
taken. COP15 will convene governments from
and equity should form an integral part of the
around the world to agree a new set of goals
transition towards a low-carbon world.
for nature over the next decade.
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Knowledge exchange – a two-way
COP26 – the 26th UN Climate Change
exchange between researchers and research
Conference of the Parties, which took place
users to share ideas, research evidence,
in Glasgow from 31 October to 13 November 2021.
experiences and skills. It refers to any process
COP26 brought together delegates
through which academic ideas and insights
including heads of state, climate experts and
are shared, and external perspectives and
negotiators to accelerate action towards
experiences are brought into academia
the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN
and / or a project.
Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Local Development Plan – enables the
Deer management groups – groups of
right kind of development to happen in the
estates or other landholdings that share
right place to help deliver the aims of
access to a discrete population or herd of
the Cairngorms National Park. All planning
deer that is managed as a common resource.
applications in the National Park are
assessed against this plan.
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Ecological network – the basic, joined up
infrastructure of existing and future habitat
needed to allow populations of species and
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Muirburn – the practice of burning off old
growth on moorland to encourage new growth.
habitats to survive in fluctuating conditions.
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